Mr. Fran Thompson:

Yes. I will go to the GP solutions first. We have been working with the GP vendors to make sure that their solutions can accommodate the vaccine. The GP vendors and the solutions today are very good at managing the influenza vaccine and the cohorts. They have functionality within the system to allow them to call in and manage the cohort. We are working very closely with them. In round figures, there are approximately 2,700 GPs for whom the system will have to be updated and rolled out to those people, and the GP vendors are in the process of doing that.

The Deputy also asked about the use of MyGovID. We have been in discussions with the Government Chief Information Officer, CIO, on the best way to do that. On our side, we took a decision that it is something we would like to do in the future, but for simplicity and speed we said we would allow people to register using their own email address and their own password, because in terms of trying to link that into MyGovID, and not everybody today has a MyGovID, we reckoned we were trying to make it as frictionless as possible for people to do that registration.

We are also very keen to make full use of the individual health identifier, IHI, and that, when we are registering people, we are assigning their IHI into the vaccination system to ensure we can uniquely track and trace them all the way through. It is a very good use of the IHI in this instance.